Here's the kicker: I don't care that megas took more effort or whatever. I think they're really ugly digimon rip off designs and I don't like playing with them and getting rid of them is pretty much impossible. There's nothing redeeming to them for me. I don't care about dmax as a theme but they're fun in vgc so I think they're better
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Who said anything about me "defending" products? I'm not defending anything here, buddy, and I have no problem with people not sharing the same opinion as me. This has nothing to do with opinions on a matter: and as far as I'm concerned when it comes to opinions I have seen that there are two kinds of people in that regard: those who are willing to read and respect others' opinions and are open to other viewpoints, and those who are determined to argue that their opinion is superior. I don't mean to make any assumptions, but the way you're acting suggests to me you fall into the latter group, as you seem to be particularly adamant in asserting your stances as superior to others, considering the tone of your posts. I don't think that's a particularly good attitude to have, whether that's your intention or not.
And you seem to be very emotionally charged considering the accusations and assumptions you're throwing at me and Lemingue here. I never defended any products here, I am perfectly aware of the flaws many games in this series had, and I am not saying anything is above criticism. All I said is that regardless of how I feel about a certain product, even if I have issues with it I'm not gonna shove it in others' faces unprompted. If other people find good in a product like USUM or Let's Go for example, that's on them. Not my problem. I wasn't making any assumptions about you either, frankly. My point was merely that there's a difference between forcing yourself to enjoy things and taking a break until something gets better. That's frankly what I do: if I've reached a point where I feel a series isn't good I opt to step away from it and stop supporting it until it gets better (that is, assuming it ever does). Not giving a company my money is the least I can do especially for something that's ultimately beyond my control in the grand scheme of things. I have a life to live anyway, and far more important things to worry about in my life then to invest my energy into consistently talking about how some piece of media has fallen so far that I feel a need to shove it in everyone's faces. And even so, I can just stick to old school games or stuff like ROM Hacks if the official media is proving itself to be subpar. I think you just need to chill out for a minute.
I don't know how emotional I seem like since english is not my native tonge, and so I'm in a noticeable disadvantage in terms of vocabulary alone when discussing with you, what I can surely say is that I haven't disrespected anyone.
To sumarize, I just told you (since your post was referring to me, because I am the only person that has critizied Game Freak lazyness in the last 87 pages, and so, your post concerning this matter was addressing the post I wrote a few minutes before that obviously) that you have to learn to accept what other players say by what it is: nothing but an honest opinion.
It makes no sense, in the searching of a few likes, to start a digression that beings with "I'll never understand people that dislike [...]" addressing me, and continue it with "play other games as I do", which basically reads as "invest your time in playing other things instead of critizing what you dislike". A clever aproximation to a debate, but one that definitely falls sort against someone with tons of experience in "forums waters".
No one, again, has reached any point. Not the point of stopped playing, not the point of opting for not "criticize" and playing something else instead. We all do play other things; criticize an aspect of a game or company is perfectly compatible with being happy and playing other things. And maybe, just maybe, you should've read the parts in which I say that I do love the franchise. That's written in there from the beginning, not something I'm coming with right now. That is the point I'm unconfortable with in your post. Don't make asumptions about how much a certain someone dislike a game/franchise just because that person is making a valid, critic point, and don't use yourself and what you would do in a hyphotetical scenario no one but you have described in their place.
Sunk cost fallacy is a strong motivator lol.
Honestly though, it does fell kinda forced for me at least. I've always bought into the "Pokemon as friends" idea, as stupid as it may sound. I love raising up Pokemon and having them with me forever. In a world of impermanence that is constantly in flux (and lets be honest, it's not getting better), it's a nice idea to have friends that will always be there for you. Which is why Dexit hurt me so badly - it was basically GF telling me my friends don't matter. It killed any interest I had in Pokemon for three years, and I still have yet to play Gen 8.
But I came back. Not beacuse GF changed or Pokemon got better, but beacuse of mechanical issues. There's been reported component failures of carts (sometimes fixable, sometimes not). Even if that were not the case, all data storage does have a shelf life. You can only store and write data for so long before functions start to degrade, and small game carts are far more vulnerable to this issue. Even more pressing is the Pokemon Bank issue - GF was adamant that Bank was a permanent fixture, but Home has clearly replaced it. Given that GF likes to kill-off past gen functions that they have to host, it's likely that GF will eventually decide to close Bank and all Pokemon not on the right side of the Gens will be stuck forever - or at least until their data degrades and they permanently die...
So I do feel forced to engage with Pokemon. I can't just let my friends be swept away; I'm committed to their wellbeing. I'm currently working (halfway finished) on transferring up all my Pokemon to Gen 7 as well as completing bucket-list projects that I've been sitting on for years, all so I can initiate a mass evacuation to Home should GF announce the closure of Bank. I'm not playing Pokemon beacuse I'm invested in it again, I just feel that this next step is necessary for me. That's not to discount other people's takes, this is just how I feel.
In OR/AS, there's an Ace Trainer in Rustboro City who gives you a Float Stone. When you leave the room and come back, the Ace Trainer model has been replaced with a Hiker, who says that he's been putting on a lot of weight recently.
But there is such a thing as moving on. You have to accept that you can’t save everyone all the times (though there is good chance you’ll save Pokémon you got into Home provided there are no major issues) and not get too attached with virtual characters, even the collectibles one, as they are essentially fictional characters.
You can love them, you can hate them, you can treat your Pokémon as your closest friends, but in the end, once you finishes transferring all your Pokémon safe and sound to Home, it is a good idea to wait until the Pokémon situation improves.
However, I don’t agree that Dexit is the worst thing of all things happened in Pokémon, partially but especially thanks to the Gen 8’s DLC and the additional mainline adventures. There’s no denying that one’s least favorite Pokémon is another’s favorite, but that does not stop the discord between the fans in the slightest.
If anything, Dexit instead, made some the issues somehow even worse, or aren’t solved but runs the risk of being worsened. Game balance (in-game or competitive), amount of contents available in the games and post-game, amount of entirely new Pokémon (though Regional Variants helps fill this gap a bit), hand-holding (too little too late so far), the excessive linearity, excessive favoritism to the point of insincerity, overtly gimmicky single-staged Pokémon - not really a fan of them, okay? - and so on.
Dexit isn’t the biggest worry so much of how the mainline games, or at least ones developed by Game Freak, will somehow see a worse drop of quality overall or an even worse mediocrity at Gen 9, whenever it comes. Especially considering the hypocrisy and finickiness of multiple Pokémon fans that gave us bad names.
Congrats on reaching sub zero levels of takes lmao
For this not to be only a passive aggressive one liner anyone can we talk about how the Battle Resort in ORAS has just the right layout that it's possible to lock your walk in a direction and never stop? Like yeah there's the rotary camera mechanic but we're also lucky there's a path that takes advantage of it, and like looking how close it is to walls and stuff it wouldn't have been hard for the whole thing to not work out at all. It's not a very "hidden" thingy or whatever but it's such a great tool to have for breeding and levelling up. Learned to be appreciative of it once we saw that there was nothing of the sort in sun and moon lol. I have no idea if it's intentional or not but I'm hella glad it was in the game.
Hi Gravity.
Would you kindly explain me what this expression really means? I take it's not literal, and I'm not familiarized with its meaning. I promess that, if you do so, tomorrow morning I'll deposit the explanation at the nearest bank, in order to see if it generates any kind of interest.
Greetings.
Sure. A hot take being an unpopular opinion, let’s just say that your opinion, as valid as it is, has been circulating around A LOT to a point where its just burning me out. Like yeah, the game looks lazily done compared to, like, all switch titles, thanks for being the 12 millionth person for pointing that out. Hell even I don’t like that direction and am not planning to buy the game but I kinda realized rambling about it is kinda of like screaming at the void. And they’re still gonna sell millions anyway. Im mostly just kinda confused at what your post is supposed to bring to the overall discussion especially in a thread where it’s not really relevant at all (thank you for being aware of it yourself). I would’ve recommended you to go write you heart out on the actual BDSP thread but it’s apparently locked? I guess this was the best next place outside of some sort of vent discord channel which I feel this rant would be more appropriate to be posted in.
For explanation, the threads are usually only open when there's recent news (so will be tomorrow after the direct very likely) to prevent spam and just random wishlisting when there's no news for a month.
I already knew what the problem was. Do you know why? Because, if my oppinion is common, yours is even more. I can't possibly recall how many times have I seen this same comment: "this is burning me out". "Thanks for being the 12th people telling the same". Now, let me teach you a lesson, in which I'll also explain to you, in a -to me- foreign language, why you shouldn't be another victim of this corrupt thinking, deprived of logic and one that follows an unnatural and silly philosophy, hurting and hindering any possible debate.
First. When you are talking to me, you are talking to me. I'm not any of those "12th million comments". I can only put terms on my own, individual words. That means, it's completely irrelevant how many people agrees or disagrees, now, previously or later, with anything I say. The fact that more people has said something similar in the past, does not weaken (nor reinforce) my argument.
Second. You shouldn't be 'burned' by someone criticizing a certain aspect of a game. While doing so, not only are you proving to be an inmature individual, but you are also implicitly accepting your inability to withstand negative oppinions. Would you be so, what did you call it, 'burned out', had my oppinion be a full, 15 paragraph diggresion, telling how much I love Pokémon and how perfect it is? No. Surely not. In fact, said message would be filled with likes and no one, not a single person, would have quoted me. I do not like people that, covered under the pretext of "being burned of hearing critic commentary", incite others to what fundamentally is the following: only express whatever you think is good about the game. Whenever the negative side of the commentary is revealed, it always results, as in Yu-Gi-Oh, in an instantaneous response by the terms of "please, stop, you guys are burning me off". As if, as a result of hearing someone's critic about a game, franchise or corporation, your mind and soul is exposed to some kind of terrying cosmic creature that makes you experiment inefable horror and pain.
Third. I've noticed that you always tend o hyperbole when refering to someone criticizing a game you like. Not you. People in general. To put it in simple terms, although I've already addresed this topic, for you to say that "there's no necessity to ramble about something you don't like", is like me saying "there's no necessity to tell us how much you like a game; if you love it so much, marry it". Now, it'd be absurd and completely out of common sense to ask you, in a public forum, to keep your oppinion to yourself, and also to marry a game. It's exactly as absurd as inciting someone who confessedly admited to like the games to keep their oppinion for themselves, and also stop playing the games.
Remember. We are not talking about life changing decissions here. The day you learn how to say possitive things about a game, and enjoy reading people who say how much they like the games, while also being able to express your critizicing on the product and enjoy sharing some of that critizicing aspects with other people -who also like the games, because these are not mutually exclusive terms-, you'll grow as a person, and will be able to enjoy and nurture of greater debates. Your posture is one as old as the forums existence, and one that has been always culprit of hindering neutral debate, for it adds nothing but the wrongly assumed idea that anything that isn't related to praise is better ignored or kept for oneself.
Greetings.
The thread for complaining about things is over here.
Anyway,
I just noticed that all three of Bibarel's abilities have to do with stat boosts. Simple doubles them, Unaware ignores them, and Moody makes them go haywire. It's neat when a Pokemon has a mechanical through line in its abilities.
Anyway,
I just noticed that all three of Bibarel's abilities have to do with stat boosts. Simple doubles them, Unaware ignores them, and Moody makes them go haywire. It's neat when a Pokemon has a mechanical through line in its abilities.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I think this is only for the models you battle on Elesa’s runway show in b2w2? (Or maybe there just aren’t any beauties outside of her gym?) I think that’s why the music is so, uh, specific? It builds off of the Nimbasa gym theme—which actually also changes (extra vocals and instrumentation get added) as you beat each model and finally incorporates the standard gym leader theme once you arrive at the end of the catwalk before Elesa.
It’s actually really cool and very memorable! Probably my favorite gym in the series. Here are all 4 of her different gym themes. The last two are particularly nice.
Gen II to Gen I tradeback moves. Make many Gen I Pokemon a lot more usable, which especially helps with Stadium. Big ones off the top of my head include the following:
-Any Pokemon with usable Special that can learn an Elemental Punch, but not their 95 or 120 power equivalents
-Speaking of the 95 power moves, the Flamethrower move tutor in Crystal gave many Pokemon like Slowbro more interesting coverage options
For more specific examples:
-Fly Dragonite
-Surf Tauros
-Razor Leaf Vileplime
-Fire Spin Arcanine
-Dig Kingler/Kabutops
-Psychic Golduck
-Amnesia Nidoking/Clefable/Persian/Kingler/Tangela
-Any Pokemon with usable Special that can learn an Elemental Punch, but not their 95 or 120 power equivalents
-Speaking of the 95 power moves, the Flamethrower move tutor in Crystal gave many Pokemon like Slowbro more interesting coverage options
For more specific examples:
-Fly Dragonite
-Surf Tauros
-Razor Leaf Vileplime
-Fire Spin Arcanine
-Dig Kingler/Kabutops
-Psychic Golduck
-Amnesia Nidoking/Clefable/Persian/Kingler/Tangela
There are only four Beauties in B2W2 three of whom are in Nimbasa Gym. The fourth is still in Nimbasa City but can only be battled in winter. I'm not sure if she shares the same theme as the other three or not. I do know there aren't any Beauties in BW so this theme is exclusive to B2W2.
I do agree though that B2W2's Nimbasa Gym has the best designed Gym layout in the series. There other Gym fights I prefer but the whole catwalk concept alongside a cheering crowd + the music made it incredibly hype.
B2W2 overall has the best designed Gym layouts in my opinion with Humilau and Opelucid's Gyms being excellent as well.
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I definitely agree. I’ve recently been playing through White 2 whenever I have the time and it’s easily one of the more fun main series experiences I’ve had in a while. The gyms and routes are really well-designed but they’re also greatly enhanced by all the little touches and flourishes that I don’t really recall seeing elsewhere (to the same degree) in the main series.
You're right GF can't be "lazy" on the DP remakes, so going to slide the criticism over to Sword & Shield for the point of this post.
While lazy may not be the right word, it gets the point across. Cut corners, lack of content, questionable animations & graphics, cookie cutter story, strongly suggested rushed development... while certainly not lazy, also isn't top quality work. Not quite sure what the term to use here, "rushed"? "Shoddy" maybe?
And granted not all departments deserve any blame like the art department. However there are people within the development team who is responsible for the game direction, the game directors, who you can totally blame for the game's failures. Once again, maybe not the art director, but at the very least the executive director all had to "okay" when content & story had to be cut as they started to rush things (which, BTW, they were also responsible for not happening either by planning better or asking the powers that be for more time; I have a feeling neither of those two things happened). Heck, if the art director was also in charge or graphics, even they can be blamed for the PS2 textures we see all over the Wild Area and other locations instead of requesting for higher resolution environment textures. So, while not everyone in the development team deserves blame, notably the "grunt" workers, there are still people like the directors who you can.
And while we can't really address any of the above to the DP remakes, we also don't know if GF forced any restrictions on the 3rd party developers. Also, remember Masuda is the executive director of the remakes, so still someone in GF is in charge of making "final" decisions, many which led to the failures we've seen with Sword & Shield.
But what's wrong with voicing your concerns? Sure, GF probably would never read these exact messages, but other fans will and many would likely agree the direction the Pokemon games have been going isn't that great and would like to see their favorite game series do better. And we all have lives & additional interests outside of Pokemon, any of us could drop Pokemon and move on. But that's not exactly going to make things better, now is it? GF may be deaf to a single individual, but maybe if enough fans start banging on the same problems that gets bigger media outlets to take notice and report on then maybe it would push GF to go "hmm, a lot of fans didn't seem to like this. It's not that big of a deal to change it so maybe let's take a look into it and see what didn't quite go right with the playerbase". Yes, I know, a pipedream as GF are very steadfast in their decisions; but gotta at least try.
And the biggest crime here: instead of working on them trying to make them better, GF is now tossed these "super" mechanics to the side for a new toy. Oh, sure, they may bring them back every so often... but since they haven't worked on them it's likely being brought back as the broken/style over substance mechanic it was left as. Mega Pokemon require stat scaling & wider distribution to unpopular Pokemon, Dynamax/Gigantamax at the very least needs to toss the the "growing big" gimmick; and Mega & Z-Moves need to find a way to maybe allow multiple & adaptable uses of their gimmick so you're not just tied to one Pokemon assigned before the battle. In the past I've suggested a "power gauge" you need to build-up which then lets you activate a certain effect (either using the whole bar on a Z-Move or going Mega/Gigantamax for a few turns until the bar runs out).
What's your thoughts on Gigantamax? It uses the Dyanamax mechanic but also has the super design changes which, now that you mention, makes the Pokemon even look more like Digimon ripoffs because the Pokemon are now literally being merged with other objects which is something Digimon likes to do (Gigantamax Blastoise looks like its competing with the Gundramon who can have the most guns crafted to their body).
Hotwataaa. ♪
"No, no Indeedee. We serve Berry Juice not hot water."
"Botwatus?"
"Ber-ry juice"
"Burijoos?"
"There ya go! Here's a customer, now what do we offer?
"Hotwataaa!" ~
"*HEAVY SIGH* ..."
You forgot the best one.
Wukong is referring to Beauty December which is the winter "date" for the boy protag for the Rondez-View Ferris Wheel. AND looking up a video of a battle with her... it's just the normal trainer theme. So, yeah, it's indeed just a Nimbasa Gym thing and not for the B2W2 Beauty class.
Which is pretty notable, as Gen V is the only game without a common "Beauty" as a trainer outside of this. BW doesn't have them at all while B2W2 they return as only Nimbasa Gym trainers. Which is pretty strange as, while in English this makes sense as they return as fashion models, in the Japanese games it kind of doesn't as the Trainer Class is originally just called "Grown-Up Woman". Since Gen V was based on New York, makes me wonder if this decision was solely based on the English version of the name.
I don't really like most of them either tbh. They either change very little to justify a gmax differentiation (like eevee or pika or butterfree or-) or are just really weird looking and have the same weird overdesigned traits that Megas used to (like the blastoise you mentioned). I just think more of them are passable than megas
Here’s another one you forgot.
It just sounds so unbelievable fancy-schmancy you that I can’t help but like it. Disappointed it wasn’t reused in Kalos or Galar (then againreusing encounter themes isn’t really a thing AFAIK).
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Pikachu's Gmax being Yellow pikachu was a genuine good idea, one of my favourite gen 8 design.
Albeith I still think the best gen 8 "small idea" is the shiny forms of the galarian birds. That's honestly clever and well executed.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaa, I've been replaying Ultra Moon and I've been catching every legendary possible through the ultra wormholes (only rayquaza to go), and I noticed something when I caught Zapdos. Normally I play with the music off, but occasionally I turn it on for no reason and then it gets stuck in my head for a year. But, here's the thing I've figured out. When you encounter a legendary from a previous region, it plays the encounter music from that region.
This is hands-down my favourite little detail about Pokemon, ever.
This is hands-down my favourite little detail about Pokemon, ever.
Just wait until you find out that after capturing some of these legendary, you get that music available in the Battle Tree and Battle Spot as well.
Articuno/Zapdos/Moltres: Random Encounter theme from RGBY
Mewtwo: Kanto Legendary theme from XY
Raikou/Entei/Suicune: Legendary Beast theme from Crystal
Lugia: Lugia theme from HGSS
Ho-oh: Ho-oh theme from HGSS
Regirock/Regice/Regitsteel: Regi theme from RSE
Latias/Latios: Random Encounter theme from RSE
Kyogre/Groudon/Rayquaza: Weather trio theme from RSE
Uxie/Mesprit/Azelf: Pixie Trio theme from DPPt
Dialga/Palkia: Dialga/Palkia theme from DPPt
Heatran/Regigigas: Rotom/Legendary theme from DPPt
Giratina: Giratina theme from Platinum
Cresselia: Random Encounter theme from DPPt
Cobalion/Terrakion/Virizion/Tornadus/Thundurus/Landorus: Legendary theme from BW/B2W2
Reshiram/Zekrom/Kyurem: Tao Trio theme from BW/B2W2(one version instead of subtle differences like the originals)
Xerneas/Yvetal: Kalos Legendary theme from XY (Zygarde uses this theme too but it's found outside of Ultra Space)